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The RURAL NEW-YORKER 
28, 1920 
Beet Sugar.— On returning the other 
day from the rural store with my one al¬ 
lotted pound of synthetic (?) sugar, I 
chanced to see in the local paper that the 
output of sugar in 1919 from the five 
Northern Ohio beet sugar factories was, 
in round numbers. 50,000.000 pounds, and 
my purchase was not of this showing, but 
a low-grade of syrupy brown sugar, for 
which 22 cents was charged. Why was 
not this Ohio sugar allowed to he put 
upon the Ohio market? That would give 
each persons 10 lbs., which would be a 
little improvement on the pound distribu¬ 
tion once in a while. Can anyone tell 
why Northern Ohio, with favorable soil, 
climate and favorable co-operation, does 
not increase this sugar production, which 
is annually about the same? Is it be¬ 
cause a crop of corn brings the most 
money with much less labor? Which lias 
the more to do with this, scarcity and very 
high labor prices or the great sugar 
trusts? 
A Working Dairy.— In sight of the 
writer’s home lives a dairyman whose 
dairy practice and results are almost a 
paradox to the general cry that dairying 
does not pay. This man. when a small 
boy, came from Switzerland with his 
father’s family, who found the new world 
far from realizing their expectations, and 
attempting gardening, actually lived in a 
sod house for a time. The older boy soon 
got work on a dairy farm, aud in a few 
years became its renter. Each year saw 
a great advance. The dairy grew in num¬ 
bers aud soon he bought the farm aud 
broadened out still more. lie bettered 
the barn, built a silo, then another; rent¬ 
ed another "adjoining farm; decided he 
would gradually breed his dairy into the 
Holstein stock, and in a few years he had 
a fine dairy of over GO cows. He con¬ 
cerned himself little about the milk mar¬ 
ket or its dictation of prices. lie took 
what was coming, aud saw to it that he 
kept up his supply of milk. He kept the 
family with him, and with two brothers 
and a sister employed made efficient help. 
Then a great dairy barn was erected. the 
finest possibly in the county ; then more 
silos aud more corn land, so that the big 
dairy should have silage every day in the 
year in addition to pasturage. Then he 
was up to G5 producing cows and sending 
in each day from 15 to 22 40-quart cans 
of milk. That year his milk sales, even at 
low prices, amounted to over ,$000 a 
month, while the sales of surplus stock 
and the like ran into gratifying amounts. 
Yet another small farm was purchased, 
and then a fine farmhouse was built, with, 
all the betterments found in the modern 
homes. Much farm machinery was pur¬ 
chased. a few more cows added aud at 
present, with milk at $3.05 per can, he is 
selling 22 cans of milk, 40 gallons each, 
at $3.50 a can, daily—around $80 a clay, 
or $2,400 a mouth—and still going ! This 
man apparently pays little attention to 
the market, takes the going prices, is hav¬ 
ing a good time in his new house, which 
is finely furnished and a piano aud big 
phonograph, besides (if he has no,wife) 
a six-cylinder auto, church in his house 
now and then, aud still thinks he is get¬ 
ting along only ‘‘middling.” Why are not 
all dairymen Fred Knopfs? Don’t answer 
all at once 1 
Wintry Weather. —We have now had 
over three weeks of uninterrupted deep 
snow, frozen by two light rains into whole 
townships of solid ice crust that makes 
getting about a matter of extreme hazard 
and teaming on the civ streets a matter 
out of the question, but it is being solved 
in a very surprising manner. A caterpil¬ 
lar farm tractor goes anywhere, cannot 
slip or skid, up or down hill, makes no 
difference whether it is pulling one or two 
big trailers; and so the city manufacturer 
who must move stuff is leaving the horses 
in their stalls and buying caterpillars, and 
so knows neither snow. ice. nor zero 
weather, which latter is most of the time. 
Some think that these tractors have come 
to stay. Another great firm close by this 
caterpillar factory is making aircraft to 
fly dear of the ice. but, as yet, accept no 
orders to move heavy freight. But neither 
has lowered notably the II. C. L.! 
Changing Rural Conditions. —What 
the Pastoral Parson says ou page 1G2 
about the “Lonely Road.” which once in 
part applied to much of Northern Ohio, 
prompts the writer to note some of the 
changes that are fast following each other 
hereabouts, and makes clear that good 
roads, gasoline and electricity combined 
can work great betterments in a section 
of country and add immensely to the 
spirit and progress of its inhabitants. The 
auto and the motor truck adapted to all 
want.s have rapidly followed the paved 
roads, and have changed the market con¬ 
ditions of the farm almost beyond recogni¬ 
tion. and also that far back on the lonely 
road, miles beyond the pike, so that now 
by far the greater share of the commerce 
of the farm is a front-gate transaction, 
cash on the spot, so that the farm milk, 
fruits, general crops and every kind of 
live stock is now trucked. Even the rural 
delivery and the “kid wagons” are now 
usually gasoline propelled, so that a lonely 
road is difficult to locate. Auto cabs with 
regular routes and time cards are com¬ 
mon, and between the larger towns auto 
passenger cars are run at express speed 
ou a two-hour schedule time, in addition 
to express trucks and freight business on 
the piked roads galore. Now it is elec¬ 
tricity. for house and street lights and 
small power, not only for the larger vil 
lages but to the rural hamlets as well, 
and within six months one-half of the 
little rural hamlets and “corners” of this 
county are so lighted and houses wired 
as well, but the newer innovation of run¬ 
ning these electric lines far out into abso¬ 
lute rural territory away from better 
roads and actually making this man on 
the lonely road a suburbanite is fast be¬ 
coming an actuality. What is true of this 
county is duplicated all over the Western 
Reserve. Miles of these rural lighting 
lines will be erected the coming season, 
and with the community center spirit, fed¬ 
erated churches, centralized schools by the 
half hundred, why should we not say, 
“See us grow?” J. g. 
Hematuria 
I had a sick cow some time ago, and 
in case the same happens in the future 
I would like to know what you think 
of the symptoms, the cause and remedy. 
The cow in question passed urine the 
color of strong liquid manure, became 
sluggish, with loss of appetite, also fell 
away in flesh very rapidly. I called in a 
good veterinarian and he saved her. Do 
you approve of Epsom salts for a cow, 
or raw linseed oil and saltpeter, and 
what proportions? c. A. m. 
As the veterinarian mentioned did so 
well with the case described you should 
have confidence in him and employ him 
at once if any other animal becomes sick. 
Epsom salts is the popular physic for a 
cow, but we prefer glauber salts in some 
cases. The average dose is one pound of 
either dissolved in three pints of warm 
water well sweetened with molasses, and 
Februar, 
to be administered very slowly and care¬ 
fully from a long-necked bottle. Raw 
linseed oil, or medicinal mineral oil, may 
be given twelve hours after the salts, if 
thought necessary. Saltpeter is not giveu 
as a physic. The sickness described may 
have been induced by eating some acrid 
plant in the pasture. 
Cough 
I have a cow which is coughing very 
badly, and I know of course you would 
suggest tuberculosis, but do cows only 
cough from that or are there other 
causes? What is a remedy? If cows 
must be tested and killed must the owner 
stand the expense. MRS. c. J. c. 
As often stated here, cough merely la 
a symptom of irritation, and that may be 
due to any one of a host of differenl 
causes; but as tuberculosis is a very 
common cause, and makes the milk of 
the affected cow dangerous for use by 
man or animals, we always advise appli¬ 
cation of the tuberculin test. The test 
is the only method by which tuberculosis 
can reliably be determined, and does no 
harm to a well cow. The advantage in 
applying it in all cases of cough should 
be apparent, for without the test on* 
might go on harboring a dangerously dis¬ 
eased cow, treating the cough to no pur¬ 
pose and using the milk to the possible 
detriment of persons or animals. Other 
common causes of cough are dust in feed, 
irritating gases in the stable, irregulari¬ 
ties of the teeth, lodging of some sharp 
object in the tongue or throat, ulcerated 
membranes in the mouth or throat, 
catarrh, cold, bronchitis, etc., apart from 
tuberculosis, and swelling of the gland* 
of the throat, due to actinomycosis. Tak* 
the matter up with the State veterinarian 
for particulars as to the law in Pen nsyl- 
vania. 
Northern Ohio Notes 
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